testers wanted

[Ruslan Ermilov]

On Fri, Mar 25, 2005 at 11:46:18AM +0200, Ruslan Ermilov wrote:
> Hi DES,
> 
> On Thu, Mar 24, 2005 at 02:43:04PM +0100, Dag-Erling Sm?rgrav wrote:
> > I need someone with an nForce3-based Opteron box running -CURRENT to
> > do the following:
> > 
> >  - upgrade to a recent -CURRENT, verify that a GENERIC kernel with
> >    NO_MIXED_MODE removed works properly *with apic enabled*
> > 
> Looks like it works, though I got one TIMEOUT - WRITE_DMA with it.
> I just used a stripped down GENERIC kernel with hw.apic.mixed_mode=1
> set in /boot/loader.conf, which has the same effect as above.
> 
Hmm, I get a lot of these timeouts under a moderate load, so I
reverted to running without APIC.

ad0: TIMEOUT - READ_DMA retrying (2 retries left) LBA=78348992
ad0: TIMEOUT - READ_DMA retrying (2 retries left) LBA=76137492
ad0: TIMEOUT - READ_DMA retrying (2 retries left) LBA=40718060
ad0: TIMEOUT - READ_DMA retrying (2 retries left) LBA=75041976
ad0: TIMEOUT - READ_DMA retrying (2 retries left) LBA=42997008
ad0: TIMEOUT - READ_DMA retrying (2 retries left) LBA=70133884
ad0: TIMEOUT - WRITE_DMA retrying (2 retries left) LBA=43351984
ad0: TIMEOUT - WRITE_DMA retrying (2 retries left) LBA=43735084
ad0: TIMEOUT - READ_DMA retrying (2 retries left) LBA=43745116

> >  - build an unmodified GENERIC (*with* NO_MIXED_MODE) from the same
> >    sources and boot it *with apic enabled*
> > 
> Booted the same kernel with hw.apic.mixed_mode=0.  It stalls
> (see the attached logs).
> 
> > Please provide verbose dmesg for both cases, as well as the contents
> > of /boot/loader.conf and /boot/device.hints.
> > 
> /boot/loader.conf has some uninteresting stuff to load network
> and sound modules I need, and device.hints equals GENERIC.hints.
> 
That said, the situation didn't imrpove in any way since I first
tried it a few months ago.


Cheers,
-- 
Ruslan Ermilov
ru at FreeBSD.org
FreeBSD committer
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